Method: We analyzed two contrasting cases (good or poor outcome) treated with grief constructivist therapy. In both cases we investigated the association of emotional processing (Experiencing Scale) to (1) therapeutic outcome (Inventory of Complicated Grief), and (2) change in the type of grief-...
This is an intra-personal, processing group therapy program. We use an eclectic range of modalities. We explore; self-care, self-expression, self-identity, trauma, grief and loss, fear and anxiety, self-care for professional caregivers, and much more. All in an atmosphere of gentleness and ...
The qualitative findings produced a model showing: global distress, fear, shame, and aggressive anger as undifferentiated and insufficiently processed emotions; the articulation of needs and negative self-evaluations as a pivotal step in change; and assertive anger, self-soothing, hurt, and grief as...
If shown a scene of women crying outside a church, subjects might interpret it as representing a funeral and the women as expressing grief. However, an attempt to reappraise this ambiguous scene might lead to another interpretation in which subjects imagine the women are crying in joy at the ...
In her first interview since the death last spring of her mother, Wynonna Judd talks about anger, grief, and her determination to forge ahead on a Judds tour announced only weeks before her mom died.
If successful, the concept may help to unify such apparently unrelated events as obsessions, the return of fear, abnormal grief reactions, nightmares, treatment failures, and so on. Factors that may facilitate or impede emotional processing are presented, and some circumstances that may give rise ...
Hayden is 3.5 yrs, she gives me grief about socks I bought the seamless socks and even those aren't good enough, she hates all socks. Loves sandals and flip flops but has to wears socks at her school. This is such a battle that i am late every morning, we have huge fights, and ...
If successful, the concept may help to unify such apparently unrelated events as obsessions, the return of fear, abnormal grief reactions, nightmares, treatment failures, and so on. Factors that may facilitate or impede emotional processing are presented, and some circumstances that may give rise ...
grieftraumatraumatic lossThis article shares my personal experiences using writing therapy after the death of my son. I found that writing some of my most traumatic experiences as fiction helped me acknowledge and process my grief but still maintain a protective distance from it. Fictionalizing my ...
unproductive affective processes (i.e. global distress, fear andshame, and rejecting anger), through negative self-evaluation and expressing unmetneeds, to productive affective processes (i.e. hurt and grief, self-compassion, assertiveanger, and acceptance and agency) that aid in adaptive ...